Joanne Harris Quotes

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

History is totally unpredictable.

A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom … the gale of the world carried me away.

Destiny and history are untidy.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.